How To Tie The Reef Knot (Square Knot)

[777specops]

Inaccurate and misleading. A reef knot and a square knot are very similar in appearance, but they are "NOT" the same thing!

What you see here is a SQUARE KNOT. A square knot is difficult to untie if it is very tight. The Reef knot solves this problem by making one of the ends longer so that a single loop can be formed using the longer end of the second overhand knot. When fully tied, the strand that opposes the loop can untie the knot easily. See the Reef knot on sailing dot about dot com.

[SuperRichi1A]

From watching videos on You Tube, I can now do more knots than I could do after 2 hours of practise with high-ranking Navy Cadets. It's just so much easier to get the grasp of it through these types of videos. Oh, and don't listen to "davidkobilke" - the video isn't hard to follow at all.

[davidkobilke1]

dude ur a fuckn moron!!! if ur trying to teach people how to tie knots do it step by step slowly so those of us who have lives can follow u fuckn faggot!

[DeathClockish]

@davidkobilke1 what, you need the video to have 1 fps?

[trevorlee59]

@davidkobilke1 thats why you have a pause button mate

[atomicatomu]

tips to remember this easily: left on right, right on left

[MrJP7851]

THANKS!!!!!!!

[iPhoneSDKDeveloper]

i do that same belt in karate

[IQQIQQI]

i just learned how the "cut rope" trick was done, but the guy did a bad job showing and explaning the knot .... thanks for the easy 24 second lesson

[superfluidity]

This is NOT "one of the best knots for joining ropes". It's an UNSTABLE AND DANGEROUS knot.

Please never rely on it for safety. It's fine for tying up parcels and shoelaces, but not for hammocks. You can use something like a double fisherman's knot for a hammock.

[RRydnew]

@superfluidity

True that! Take it from a Boats'n of 20 years!

[jaymeohio9999]

@superfluidity i agree unless you have tention on all four ends of rope the knot can slip and collapse

[glucose1988]

i like your simplicity!

[mishmeister030594]

Thanks heaps - needed that for putting up a hammock

[Wrathedmetal]

should use a choke knot so the more preasure put on the more it tightens another words giving it better grip

[superfluidity]

Never use a reef knot to put up a hammock -- you're in serious danger of it coming undone. If you're joining two ends of rope together in mid-air you need a type of knot called a bend, e.g. a sheet bend or a double-fisherman's.

[sweffe96]

@superfluidity Blood knot?

[fackeo]

Nice 1

[lerdme2011]

thanks a ton! great vid